89R3578 AMF-D
	By: West	S.B. No. 596

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to reporting certain information regarding the placement
	of children and suits filed by the Department of Family and
	Protective Services.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Sections 264.017(b) and (f), Family Code, are
	amended to read as follows:
	(b)  The department shall provide the report required by
	Subsection (a) to the legislature and shall publish the report and
	make the report available electronically to the public not later
	than February 1 of each year.  The report must include, with respect
	to the preceding year:
	(1)  information on the number and disposition of
	reports of child abuse and neglect received by the department;
	(2)  information on the number of clients for whom the
	department took protective action, including investigations,
	alternative responses, and court-ordered removals;
	(3)  information on the number of clients for whom the
	department provided services in each program administered by the
	child protective services division, including investigations,
	alternative responses, family-based safety services,
	conservatorship, post-adoption services, and transitional living
	services;
	(4)  the number of children in this state who died as a
	result of child abuse or neglect;
	(5)  the number of children described by Subdivision
	(4) for whom the department was the children's managing conservator
	at the time of death;
	(6)  information on the timeliness of the department's
	initial contact in an investigation or alternative response;
	(7)  information on the response time by the department
	in commencing services to families and children for whom an
	allegation of child abuse or neglect has been made;
	(8)  information regarding child protection staffing
	and caseloads by program area;
	(9)  information on the permanency goals in place and
	achieved for children in the managing conservatorship of the
	department, including information on the timeliness of achieving
	the goals, the stability of the children's placement in foster
	care, and the proximity of placements to the children's home
	counties;
	(10)  the number of children who suffer from a severe
	emotional disturbance and for whom the department is appointed
	managing conservator, including statistics on appointments as
	joint managing conservator, due to an individual voluntarily
	relinquishing custody of a child solely to obtain mental health
	services for the child;
	(11)  the number of children who are pregnant or a
	parent while in the managing conservatorship of the department and
	the number of the children born to a parent in the managing
	conservatorship of the department who are placed in the managing
	conservatorship of the department;
	(12)  the number of children who are missing from the
	children's substitute care provider while in the managing
	conservatorship of the department; [and]
	(13)  the number of children who were victims of
	trafficking under Chapter 20A, Penal Code, while in the managing
	conservatorship of the department; and
	(14)  information on the outcome of each suit filed by
	the department and the type of placement of the child during the
	pendency of the suit.
	(f)  In addition to the other reports required by this
	section, the department shall publish on the department's Internet
	website a monthly report containing the following information for
	the preceding month:
	(1)  with respect to parental child safety placement
	agreements:
	(A) [(1)]  the number of children placed under a
	parental child safety placement agreement, disaggregated by:
	(i)  the child's age, race, gender,
	ethnicity, and county of residence;
	(ii)  the annualized incomes of the parent
	or other person with whom the child resides and the caregiver of the
	child; and
	(iii)  whether the child has previously been
	in the managing conservatorship of the department;
	(B)  the number of parental child safety placement
	agreements in effect on the last day of the month;
	(C) [(2)]  the average duration of a placement
	under a parental child safety placement agreement;
	(D) [(3)]  the average duration of a placement
	under a parental child safety placement agreement during an
	investigation; and
	(E) [(4)]  the percentage of children removed
	from a placement under a parental child safety placement agreement
	and placed in the managing conservatorship of the department; and
	(2)  by child protective services region with respect
	to:
	(A)  authorization agreements executed under
	Chapter 34 regarding a child who is the subject of an investigation
	of abuse or neglect, a suit filed by the department, or an agreement
	under which the department provides services to the child's parent:
	(i)  the number of authorization agreements
	executed;
	(ii)  the number of children subject to
	authorization agreements, disaggregated by the child's race and
	gender; and
	(iii)  the average duration of an
	authorization agreement; and
	(B)  court orders for temporary authorization for
	care of a child under Chapter 35 regarding a child who is the
	subject of an investigation of abuse or neglect, a suit filed by the
	department, or an agreement under which the department provides
	services to the child's parent:
	(i)  the number of orders signed;
	(ii)  the number of children subject to
	orders, disaggregated by the child's race and gender; and
	(iii)  the average duration of an order.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.